A 24-hour Stop Hate UK Helpline service is being launched in Wandsworth. The service gives people directly affected by hate crime, and witnesses to hate crime, a safe place to talk about their experiences and offers advice. Hate crime is motivated by hostility towards a person - it is usually ‘who’ the victim is, or ‘what’ the victim appears to be - that motivates the offender. Prejudices include a person’s perceived race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or gender. Stop Hate UK is working with Wandsworth Council to introduce the helpline - in the hopes of driving out hate crime, encouraging people to report it and offer support to people affected by it.
A 24-hour Stop Hate UK Helpline service is being launched in Wandsworth. The service gives people directly affected by hate crime, and witnesses to hate crime, a safe place to talk about their experiences and offers advice. Hate crime is motivated by hostility towards a person - it is usually ‘who’ the victim is, or ‘what’ the victim appears to be - that motivates the offender. Prejudices include a person’s perceived race, religion, sexual orientation, disability or gender. Stop Hate UK is working with Wandsworth Council to introduce the helpline - in the hopes of driving out hate crime, encouraging people to report it and offer support to people affected by it.
(Press Staff Photo by Kendra Milligan)
From top to bottom: The 30-Something members Larry McDaniel, Christine Rickman and Janey Katz take in the evolving Silver City Museum mural created by the Youth Mural Project, which was awarded funding last year from the philanthropic group. All three are vaccinated which is why they appear unmasked and say they hope for a future group gathering, thanks to the efforts of the volunteers seeing that the county gets vaccinated.
By KENDRA MILLIGAN
Independent Editor
A local philanthropic group, The 30-Something, is seeking new members and new projects to fund this summer.
The original 30 philanthropists, led by Janey Katz, contributed $1,000 each and donated the total a $30,000 fortune to a single cause. That first year, it was the Virus Theater, which needed an HVAC system so their El Sol Theatre could be habitable. But the group had bigger dreams in their future than a single annual award, with so many great projects being proposed.
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February 8, 2021 The Rokeby Venus (also known as The Toilet of Venus, Venus at her Mirror, Venus and Cupid, or La Venus del espejo), ca 1648, by Diego Velazquez (1599-1660), oil on canvas, 122x175 cm. Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images); London, National Gallery. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images) Credit: De Agostini via Getty Images
Wendy Philips, deputy chairman of Sotheby’s, chooses a classic Velázquez.
Wendy Philips on
Rokeby Venus, by Diego Velázquez
‘The “Rokeby Venus” is, to me, a particularly inspirational painting, not only because of the sheer beauty of the work itself, its perfection in composition and its teasing and enigmatic messages, but also because its acquisition by the National Gallery marked the first successful public campaign, in 1906, to save a masterpiece for the nation, spearheaded by the newly formed National Art Collections Fund.